Free-falling because Hal had to maneuver the radiation shields of the engine module to stay between us and the sun.
Since Telstar One and Two, all our satellites have been equipped with radiation shields.
The whole detector is encased in concrete blocks which act as radiation shields.
A few companies have developed so-called radiation shields, but cellphone manufacturers and health experts say they doubt that such gadgets are effective.
They were going to make dust out of the radiation shields and use that.
The heat switches and thermal radiation shields are not shown in the figure.
It was said to be very beautiful, all buildings on the surface, native stone facings with poly pressure layers and radiation shields hidden beneath.
This generally results in large radiation shields, which are unpractical to work with as they reduce the operator's movements.
Cyclers are conceptually a good idea, because massive radiation shields, life support and other equipment only need to be put onto the cycler trajectory once.
Our radiation shields can only take another twenty minutes o' this punishment.